Resource Limits for Teams and Products
Last verified 30 Jun 2026
To manage compute capacity and risks, and ensure fair resource distribution, DigitalOcean sets resource limits. Each resource limit caps a product, such as the number of Droplets, GPU Droplets, inference usage, database clusters, and so on. Limits apply per team or per product.
As a team owner or resource modifier, you can view resource usage and increase limits for products in your team.
See Droplet plans for details on Droplet choices and plans we offer.
| Tier | Droplet Count | Droplet Types | GPU Droplets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 3 | Basic Shared CPU Droplets, up to $48 | 0 |
| Tier 2 | 10 | Basic Shared CPU Droplets, up to $56 Some Dedicated CPU Droplets, up to $84 |
1 |
| Tier 3 | 15 | All Basic Shared CPU Droplets Larger selection of Dedicated CPU Droplets, up to $163 |
2 |
| Tier 4 | 25 | All Droplets | 4 |
| Tier 5 | 100 | All Droplets | 16 |
Quotas are scoped per account.
| Tier | Agents | Knowledge Bases | Requests Per Minute (RPM) | Tokens Per Minute (TPM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 15 | 15 | 120 | 500K-750K |
| Tier 2 | 60 | 60 | 120 | 500K-750K |
| Tier 3 | 60 | 60 | 600 | 800K-2M |
| Tier 4 | 60 | 60 | 600 | 800K-2M |
| Tier 5 | 120 | 120 | 4,500 | 3.5M-70M |
Serverless inference is prepaid only. You must maintain a positive prepaid account balance to send serverless inference requests, and we deduct usage charges from this balance. To add a balance or enable auto-reload, see Manage Serverless Inference Prepayment.
All tiers, except Tier 1 and Tier 2, have access to all models. Tier 1 and Tier 2 do not have access to any Anthropic models and OpenAI models (except gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b).
See Inference Limits for additional details.
Regional Load Balancer
| Tier | Count | Nodes Per Instance |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Tier 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Tier 3 | 15 | 25 |
| Tier 4 | 15 | 25 |
| Tier 5 | 50 | 60 |
Network Regional Load Balancer
| Tier | Nodes Per Instance | Autoscaler |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Tier 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Tier 3 | 10 | 3 |
| Tier 4 | 25 | 5 |
| Tier 5 | 100 | 10 |
Global Load Balancer(GLB)
| Tier | Count | Certificates |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 20 |
| Tier 3 | 1 | 50 |
| Tier 4 | 2 | 200 |
| Tier 5 | 50 | 200 |
| Product | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| Domains | Tier 1: 6 Tier 2: 15 Tier 3: 30 Tier 4: 100 Tier 5: 500 |
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| VPC Peering | Tier 1: 0 Tier 2: 1 Tier 3: 1 Tier 4: 5 Tier 5: 10 |
|
| Reserved (Floating) IP | Tier 1: 3 Tier 2: 10 Tier 3: 15 Tier 4: 25 Tier 5: 75 |
|
| Reserved IPv6 | Tier 1: 6 Tier 2: 15 Tier 3: 30 Tier 4: 100 Tier 5: 500 |
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| BYOIP | Tier 1: 0 Tier 2: 0 Tier 3: 0 Tier 4: 0 Tier 5: 2 |
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| VPC Partner Network Connect | Tier 1: 2 Tier 2: 4 Tier 3: 6 Tier 4: 10 Tier 5: 10 Bandwidth (Mbps): Tier 1: 50,000 Tier 2: 50,000 Tier 3: 50,000 Tier 4: 50,000 Tier 5: 50,000 |
| Tier | Global Capacity TiB | Size per Volume TiB | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 1 | ~0.1 (100 GiB) | 5,000 |
| Tier 2 | 2 | ~0.1 (100 GiB) | 5,000 |
| Tier 3 | 3 | 3 | 5,000 |
| Tier 4 | 16 | 16 | 5,000 |
| Tier 5 | 25 | 16 | 5,000 |